August Schmierer
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 Germany, represented by FC 1880 Frankfurt, at the 1900 Summer Olympics. (Schmierer on the ground, first from right.) | |||||||||||||||||
| Full name | August Friedrich Christian Schmierer | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 April 1870 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | unknown | ||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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August Friedrich Christian Schmierer (born 28 April 1870, date of death unknown) was a German rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was a member of the German rugby union team, which won the silver medal. Germany was represented at the tournament mainly by the FC 1880 Frankfurt rather than an official national team.[2] Schmierer had left Frankfurt in 1897 and was in 1900 already chairman of the Cannstatter Fußball-Club. But he was invited to the olympic tournament by his former club.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "August Schmierer". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ^ Die Gründerjahre des deutschen Rugbysports Archived October 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (in German) DRV website - Foundation years, accessed: 3 April 2010
- ^ Heineken, Philipp (1930). Erinnerungen an den Cannstatter Fussball-Club [Memories of the Cannstatter Fussball-Club] (in German). Heidelberg: Verlag Hermann Meister. pp. 86–88.
External links
[edit]- August Schmierer at ESPNscrum
- August Schmierer at Olympics.com
- August Schmierer at Olympedia
- August Schmierer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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